King Lear Flashcards
1.1 (Lear to Cordelia) ‘Nothing will come…
of nothing.’
1.1 (Cordelia to Lear) ‘I shall never marry like my sisters…
. To love my father all.’
1.1 (Lear to Kent) ‘Come not between a dragon…
and his wrath.’
1.1 (Kent to Lear) ‘When majesty falls…
to folly.’
1.1 (France to Cordelia) ‘Art most rich…
being poor.’
1.2 (Edmund) ‘Thou, Nature art my goddess.’ How does Lear mirror this?
1.4 (Lear) ‘Hear, Nature, hear, dear goddess, hear.’ How does Edmund mirror this?
1.2 (Edmund) ‘Why brand they us with base?…
With baseness, bastardy? Base, base?’
1.2 (Edmund) ‘Legitiamte Edgar…
I must have your land.’
1.2 (Edmund) ‘I grow, I prosper: now gods…
stand up for bastards!’
1.2 (Edmund’s soliloquy) ‘My Father compounded with my mother under the dragon’s tail…
and my nativity was under Ursa Major.’
1.3 (Goneril to Oswald) ‘Old fools are babes again and…
must be used.’
-modal verb ‘must’
1.2 (Edgar’s soliloquy) ‘I will preserve myself, and am bethought to take…
the basest and most poorest shape.’
4.6 (Lear) ‘Through tattered clothes great vices do appear;…
Robes and furred gowns hide all.’
2.2 (Edgar soliloquy) ‘Edgar…
I nothing am.’
2.2 (Lear to sisters) ‘Man’s life is…
as cheap as beasts.’
2.2 (Lear to sisters) ‘What thou gorgeous wear’st which…
scarcely keeps thee warm.’
3.2 (Lear) ‘A poor infirm, weak and…
despised old man.’
3.3 (Fools prophetic monologue) ‘Realm of…
Albion.’
3.3 (Edmund about Edgar) ‘Most savage and…
unnatural.’
3.3 (Edmund breaking the fourth wall) ‘The younger rises when the…
old doth fall.’
3.7 (Regan) ‘let him smell…
his way to Dover.’
3.7 (Servant) ‘Women will…
all turn monsters.’
4.2 (Albany to Goneril) ‘Humanity must…
perforce prey on itself.’
3.4 (Lear kneels, removing his clothes in storm) ‘Expose thyself to feel…
what wretches feel.’
